Al Jazeera cameraman killed in Gaza months after his journalist brother died in a separate strike
JOURNALIST OR TERRORISTS !
An Al Jazeera cameraman was killed in an Israeli airstrike in central Gaza on Saturday, the outlet said, less than three months after his brother, also an Al Jazeera journalist, was killed in a separate strike.
Ahmed Washah, a cameraman for Al Jazeera Mubasher — the network’s Arabic-language live channel — died when an Israeli drone struck a home in the Bureij refugee camp, the outlet said in a statement.
In a statement to NBC News, the Israel Defense Forces confirmed Washah was the target of the airstrike, claiming he was “a terrorist in Hamas’ military wing who served as a sniper operative.” They said he was eliminated alongside two additional Hamas terrorists.
Washah’s brother, Al Jazeera Mubasher correspondent Mohammed Washah, was killed on April 8 in an Israeli airstrike that hit his car in western Gaza City.
According to the Committee to Protect Journalists, the IDF said Mohammed Washah was the intended target of that strike. IDF spokesperson Avichay Adraee claimed that Mohammed Washah “was a senior figure within Hamas’ military wing.”
Al Jazeera has denied those claims and condemned Mohammed Washah’s killing, calling it an attempt by Israel to silence and intimidate journalists. A source close to Hamas also told the CPJ that the correspondent had no affiliation with the organization.
https://www.nbcnews.com/world/gaza/israeli-airstrike-kills-al-jazeera-cameraman-rcna350990
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